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To: TimF who wrote (5342)	1/6/2003 12:21:50 PM
From: Thomas M.	Respond to of 13060

I doubt this was intended to mean "we don't care if you settle your squabble by invading Kuwait and conquering the whole country". You are probably right. It probably meant for him to settle the border dispute (even if by force) but no more. Tom

To: TimF who wrote (5342)	1/6/2003 2:44:38 PM
From: Thomas M.	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 13060

We provide maybe a half of a percent of his weapons. Here is just a little sample of what we provided our good friend and ally: <<< By mid-July 1990, our SOB [Saddam Hussein] was openly moving troops towards Kuwait and waving a fist at his neighbors. Relations with Washington remained warm. Bush intervened once again to block congressional efforts to deny loan guarantees to Iraq. On August 1, while intelligence warned of the impending invasion, Bush approved the sale of advanced data transmission equipment to his friendly SOB. In the preceding two weeks, licenses had been approved for $4.8 million in advanced technology products, including computers for the Ministry of Industry and Military Industrialization, for the Saad 16 research center that was later destroyed by bombing on grounds that it was developing rockets and poison gas, and for another plant that was repeatedly bombed as a chemical weapons factory. >>> zmag.org If anything if we had been his main arms supplier it would be even more our responsibility to do something about the situation. Perhaps one of the "Libertarians" on this thread has the time to explain to you why Mafia rules are not a desirable social system. Tom